AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The State Bar of Texas is dropping efforts to discipline ... of fraud to the U.S. Supreme Court in his ...
The ethics commission of the State Bar of Texas had sued Paxton for making dishonest claims of election fraud in a 2020 ...
The state bar had sought to sanction Paxton, which could have carried a punishment ranging from a private reprimand to disbarment.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has ... the justices reasoned that allowing the state bar to discipline members of the attorney general's office would open the possibility of political retaliation.